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![]() Title:AI-Driven Public Health Surveillance: analyzing Vulnerable Areas in Brazil Using Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Data Authors:João Pedro da Silva, Erikson Júlio de Aguiar, Gabriel Spadon, Agma J. M. Traina and Jose Fernando Rodrigues-Jr Conference:IEEE CBMS 2025 Tags:AI, Analytics, Public Health and Remote Sensing Abstract: Urban vulnerability assessment is crucial for understanding the spatial distribution of deprived areas and associated risks. Slum residents face significantly worse health outcomes than non-slum urban populations, with neighborhood effects being critical in social epidemiology. Identifying such areas is vital because they present public health challenges that climate change and increased air pollution can exacerbate. Accordingly, this study proposed an AI-driven methodology that integrates remote sensing data, socioeconomic indicators, and machine learning algorithms to identify and analyze vulnerable areas in Brazil. To create a vulnerability index, we incorporate multiple data sources, including Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-5P imagery, Brazilian socioeconomic indicators, and OpenStreetMap. Hence, we predicted pollution indicators using regression algorithms such as Random Forest, XGBoost, and Linear Regression. Our findings demonstrate that integrating multi-source data is a promising approach for better understanding deprived areas, indicating that slums (called "favelas" in Brazil) exhibit an intense concentration of the socioeconomic vulnerability index, a key determinant of deprivation. However, non-slum areas may present heterogeneous conditions, with some regions showing vulnerability levels comparable to those of slums while others show better conditions. Our results highlight the potential of AI-driven approaches for urban vulnerability assessment, offering insights for policymakers and researchers. AI-Driven Public Health Surveillance: analyzing Vulnerable Areas in Brazil Using Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Data ![]() AI-Driven Public Health Surveillance: analyzing Vulnerable Areas in Brazil Using Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Data | ||||
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